We have a number of Nan Goldin prints for sale. She’s had quite the year having just been voted the most powerful person in the Art world. So here’s a quick guide about how to buy Nan Goldin and a bit about why you really should be collecting this very important artist.
Nan Goldin Posters
It’s still quite easy to get your hands on quite a few Nan Goldin posters. Posters are a great way to start your collection or to liven up a room with a large print. Vintage posters are becoming increasingly collectable due to their rarity, some have become remarkably hard to find.
We’ve a number of vintage posters. If you wanted an original ‘Jabalowe Under the Mosquito Net, Luxor, Egypt, 2003’ you’d be looking at $15k. We have this fabulous vintage poster available from 2004 have a look here - Nan Goldin vintage poster. Similarly we have another great image of a birthday in the 1990’s from her Love Steams exhibition – Nan Goldin poster 1997.
Nan Goldin Prints
Goldin has produced a number of editioned prints and we have a range for sale. Nan as a Punk, London was a release to commemorate the documentary about her work and her activism 'All the Beauty and all the Bloodshed'.
Drugs on the Rug was released to raise funds for her group that took on the Sackler family and their abhorrent practices. They were both limited editions and sold out in a matter of minutes.
Nan Goldin has produced a number of timed editions. The beautiful Swan-Like Embrace seen above. There is the fabulous Desert at Night, Aswan, Egypt which she released to raise funds for Palestine.
Nan Goldin high-end prints
At the top of the market there are a few options, but we are more about the affordable side of the market. You're looking around the $15k to $25k mark and there are a few galleries worth having a chat with. Try the Marion Goodman gallery, Guts Gallery in London also recently had a piece.
Why Buy Nan Goldin?
Nan Goldin describes her work as ‘The diary I let people read’, she has collapsed the boundaries between her life and her art. Her tender works are in the throes of life, they are empathetic the essence of the human condition.
From drag queens in the Seventies ‘I fell in love with them, literally. They were the most beautiful people I’d ever seen’. To the snatched moments of missing memories from her struggles with addiction to prescription medicines. “I’m the only one left, all the people I was meant to grow old with have died.’ she laments.
In her own words Nan Goldin narrowly escaped the Oxycontin crisis. She was prescribed the opioid after a surgery. The first night she took the prescribed 40 mg pill it was too strong. She was hooked overnight. Soon 18 pills a day wasn’t enough. Years of her life a blur. While she lived, hundreds of thousands didn’t. Oxycontin has contributed to more than 600,000 deaths in the US alone. Nan decided she couldn’t watch another generation disappear. She knew that the drug was made by Purdue Pharmaceuticals owned by the Sackler’s. An enormously powerful family who in her words ‘they have washed their blood money through the halls of museums and universities around the world.’
It was highly likely that the talented photographer would destroy her career attacking a powerful family and some of the most important art institutions in the world. But she did it anyway.
Nan Goldin’s battle with the Sackler family came to a head when she was offered a retrospective of her work by Britain’s National Portrait Gallery. She told them that she wouldn’t let them have her work unless they refused a £1million donation from the Sackler’s. She won. Soon a whole raft of world-famous museums were refusing donations from them, and were taking down the plaques veering the Sackler’s name. The Tate, The Louvre, The Guggenheim and many more fell suit.
One thing is obvious. Nan Goldin is not for sale.